Candid Bomb

An Iraqi prank television show has taken the 'candid camera' format to a new level after planting fake bombs under celebrities' cars.The programme, “Put Him In Bucca”, also threatens high-profile contests with jail in a maximum-security prison despite their protests of innocence.
The show, broadcast on the Al-Baghdadia Network , targets famous Iraqi singers, comedians and artists. 
It is named after the US military’s Camp Bucca high security prison that held thousands of Iraqi detainees before being closed in 2009.
Participants are invited to the station’s studios for an interview but as they arrive are subjected to a checkpoint complete actors posing as police and security personnel.
As they wait outside the building a fake improvised explosive device (IED) is then planted in the car before they are accused of being suicide bombers and threatened with prison.
But the programme has attracted criticism as being in bad taste, in a country where suicide bombings remain frequent.
The show has continued to be broadcast throughout the fasting month of Ramadan despite numerous protests being held objecting to its making fun of a serious issue.
Despite celebrities later giving permission for the show to air, some appeared to be have been shocked by the experience.
"I expected it to be a candid camera show but didn't expect all the army facilities and this level of acting," said actress Asia Kamal, who was targeted by the pranksters.

The Farm And The Furious

A Chinese farmer is fighting off property developers who want his land, firing rockets from a homemade cannon made out of a wheelbarrow and pipes, state media said on Tuesday. 

Yang Youde, who lives on the outskirts of the bustling city of Wuhan, in central Hubei province, said he had fended off two eviction attempts with his improvised weapon, which uses ammunition made from locally sold fireworks. 

"I shot only over their heads to frighten them," he told the China Daily of his attacks on demolition workers sent to move him off his land. "I didn't want to cause any injuries."The rockets, which can travel over 100 yards, exploded with a deafening bang, the official paper added. It did not say if anyone had been injured.

His approach is more aggressive than most, but Mr Yang's problem is a common one.

Anger over property confiscation is one of the leading causes of unrest in China, with many people forced to give up homes and land to make way for anything from roads to luxury villas.

Mr Yang said the local government had offered him 130,000 yuan (£13,000) for his fields, on which they want to erect "department buildings". He said the land is worth five times that amount.

Construction ditches have already been dug across the land of less obstinate neighbors.

A first eviction team attacked Mr Yang in February after his rockets ran out, but local police came to his rescue. In May he held off 100 people by firing from a makeshift watchtower.
The government is planning to reform property confiscation rules, but rights groups say the changes do not go far enough to address the potentially destabilizing issue.

Bee bomb

Specially trained sniffer honey bees are being used in a successful new prototype that is about the size of a hand held vacuum cleaner. Training the bees is simply a matter of bribing them with sugary treats. Trainers expose the bees to the odour, like the smell of explosives, for a few seconds and simultaneously give the bees a sugar syrup reward.
After 4 or 5 exposures the bees associate the odour with the reward.Consequently, if the bees are exposed to an air sample containing the substance, the bees demonstrate the Proboscis Extension Reflex response, that is they stick out their tongue in expectation of food, which the trainers can observe and then they can respond to the threat.